It just annoys me when we put so much on the line in defence like we did tonight , that we let it go so meekly in attack at times

Field position is gold and we treat it like poop sometimes . It was going to be one of those second halves where if we took the chances we were going to get we could win arguably our greatest ever victory with the injuries we were looking at

It might be sour grapes from myself so soon after a loss , but doesn't everyone else feel as frustrated as I do

Its obvious they were playing an up tempo game tonight with alot of ball movement. There was
always going to be errors like that.
I thought they did well.
If it werent for the injuries we win for sure.

I hate to see us lose but we cant win every week.i agree that we have underperformed in a lot of games this year but i dont think this was one of them.the effort was as good as we could expect with the injuries we incurred and i for one was proud of my team.

the flick from benji to bowen before that try was the last so to be honest you cant blame him for trying to keep it alive on the last play obviously was a major turning point in the game but we play by the sword we die by the sword the effort was there but with so many players playing out of position in attack and defence combos and plays will be harder to run with.

also appeared that curtis was given more reign this week than previously so maybe the strucutred some stuff around him this week in attack that went out the window once he went off

Our boys were terrific in their courage and effort. Can't complain about that at all.....proud of them.

My feeling is more of frustration than disappointment...frustration that, when the team needed its genuine stars to be stars, at least one of them, Benji, let them down again.

And he does it in such flamboyant, out-there, high risk ways that, when it doesn't come off, he saps the energy out of the guys who have given everything to give him the opportunity to do one clever thing.

Clever, will do Benj! I doesn't have to be brilliant or stunning or jaw dropping. Just clever......that would be enough.

I thought the effort under the circumstances was outstanding. Some guys really stood up. I was expecting the Cows to run away with it in the last quarter but the guys just kept giving in defence. Thurston would have been sick of the sight of them. It was a very tough effort and although we lost I think we can take a lot of positives from it. Yes, there were several errors in attack but that is what happens at extreme levels of fatigue.

LCA wrote:My feeling is more of frustration than disappointment...frustration that, when the team needed its genuine stars to be stars, at least one of them, Benji, let them down again.

Benji was terrible but so was Robbie when it counted. Benji for instance was great defensively. He put a hit on Bowen that stopped a try and he played great in that regards. Robbie had a great first half. Both of them went missing in the second half and they had some good opportunities that they stuffed up.

That second half last night was the same reason we got knocked out by Warriors last year and Dragons the year prior.

We are an awesome team when running hot, but otherwise we do not respect field position or possession enough. People are afraid of us because of our unpredictability, but that also means in the tight games we are a very good chance of doing something dumb.

We only every play what is in front of us, we never construct anything more than a few tackles in advance.

For example one of the last kicks Robbie put in, the ball from hooker was slow and misdirected, nobody called for it, Farah took a rushed kick that went nowhere. Cowboys weren't that much better with ball in hand but Thurston and Bowen's kicking killed a team already out on their feet. We put no such pressure on them.

jirskyr wrote:That second half last night was the same reason we got knocked out by Warriors last year and Dragons the year prior.

We are an awesome team when running hot, but otherwise we do not respect field position or possession enough. People are afraid of us because of our unpredictability, but that also means in the tight games we are a very good chance of doing something dumb.

We only every play what is in front of us, we never construct anything more than a few tackles in advance.

For example one of the last kicks Robbie put in, the ball from hooker was slow and misdirected, nobody called for it, Farah took a rushed kick that went nowhere. Cowboys weren't that much better with ball in hand but Thurston and Bowen's kicking killed a team already out on their feet. We put no such pressure on them.